
Mosaic Lincoln
Themes From the Table: A Savior in Our Exile
Exile can be both literal and metaphorical – a physical displacement from home and a deeper experience of living in a place, season, or circumstance where we feel unsettled, disconnected, or longing for something more permanent. JRR Tolkien wrote to his son, "Our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most humane, is still soaked with a sense of exile." Yet Jesus knows exile full well as he left his heavenly home to make a home with us in our wilderness experience as we wait for the permanent home prepared for us and coming to us in the age to come. The faithful one is faithfully with us as we orient ourselves to his presence even in our experiences of exile. Scripture: Hebrews 11:13-16

